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Understanding Our World Through Science

The science community notoriously struggles with communicating their research outside of their circles. The most intelligent researcher in the world could write thousands of papers, but if those are never translated into a format people can understand, they are all for not. The barrier is a language one and a fundamental understanding of the scientific process. But no researcher was born with omniscient ability to interpret scientific research. They all start somewhere. These articles are my exploration of science, determining what is real and what is white noise. Dissecting what is true and important in the literature and how that influences our understanding of the world around us. Science is the basis of all things in our world. To truly understand where we are and where we are going, science literacy is imperative.

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  • Welcome to the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation

    I always knew what path I would end up on, more or less. My parents joke that I could swim before I could walk, that I would throw…

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  • Carbon Appreciation Post

    The carbon cycle is defined by the fundamental process of life, death, and rebirth. Carbon makes up about 23% of our elemental composition by mass. Almost a quarter…

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  • Don’t Put Conservation in a Box

    This past week was probably one of the most exciting of my academic career. From watching live cams of cheetah births, feeding scimitar horned oryx, hunting for salamanders,…

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  • Expect Exceptions to the Rules

    Western science is developed in terms of purely logical, numerical data. We want absolutes. We try so hard to determine infallible truths. A plus B will always equal…

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  • Learning From Our Mistakes

    “It’s not our place to judge people in history. Our job as conservationists is to protect what we have and move forward.” – Stephanie Lessard-Pilon It is difficult…

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  • A Climate Change Perspective

    When people talk about the climate crisis, what is the alarm bell? What is the one piece of information that gets the most attention? It’s our atmospheric carbon…

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